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by xenadu02 5y ago
I have some news for you: Gold has been both deflationary and inflationary over historical time... because its supply varies based on how much miners can dig out of the ground. That quantity may or may not relate whatsoever to the amount of
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by xenadu02 5y ago
I'm not sure either but I did find confirmation that San Francisco no longer allows friction piles for any high-rise buildings in areas with "infirm" soils. Piles must be driven to bedrock.
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by xenadu02 5y ago
tl;dr: A lot of ivermectin COVID studies are garbage. When you throw them out it seems like there might be a mild positive correlation but that depends on your methodology. But when you look at the bigger picture the decent positive studies
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by xenadu02 5y ago
The video doesn't mention that the tower is a lot of reinforced concrete, not steel as in most high rises. That makes it much heavier than other friction pile buildings which is at minimum contributing to the problem. IMHO I think it&#
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by xenadu02 5y ago
Well the 240/4 block does represent around 6.7% of the total IPv4 address space (268 million addresses) and is already supported by almost every OS except Windows. That's a significant chunk of addresses that can buy some breathin
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by xenadu02 5y ago
>I think it's funny how often I see "I keep running into this bug, why haven't they fixed it!" on HN, considering how software developers should know, better than anyone, how often bugs are hard-to-reproduce edge case
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by xenadu02 5y ago
That's a different story though. The mandates turn these into economy-of-scale problems that should drive the free market to greatly reduce the cost. There is no reason a backup camera should cost 1500.
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by xenadu02 5y ago
I'm putting aside whether this telling is accurate, or whether this happened or not (given it is a throwaway). Just answering the questions about legality: 1: 100% illegal. Any FAANG manager has likely had to go through hiring training
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by xenadu02 5y ago
> I'm hesitant to work in a place where I can get thrown under the bus for being a man I'm genuinely confused here. Is this comment a thinly veiled political axe to grind? A misconception about how real life works day-to-day at
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by xenadu02 5y ago
It isn't actually clear if housing is driving inflation or responding to it. Lower mortgage rates can goose prices and demand a bit but can't come close to accounting for current pricing levels. Even at 0% down payments are not t
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by xenadu02 5y ago
A lot of products offer longer warranties if you register. For example my ice maker comes with a 1 year warranty but registering within 30 days automatically extends that to two years. It's an under-counter unit that makes nugget (aka
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by xenadu02 5y ago
> The solution is simple. Raise rates and let asset prices normalize, regardless of the consequences. This is the exact policy adopted by the Fed in 1929: purge the bad out of the system. Let the failing banks go bankrupt. That turned wh
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by xenadu02 5y ago
Juglone is toxic to most plant species but AFAIK it is harmless to mammals.
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by xenadu02 5y ago
The leads are inserted through a glob of hot glass, along with a glass tube. The bulb's open base is heated to make it soft, the blob containing the leads with attached filament are inserted, then the base is welded to the lead blob. L
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by xenadu02 5y ago
We just bought a house in SF, closed end of July. Furniture of all kinds is backordered... in some cases severely (think 26+ weeks). Daily necessities are doing fine and most products aren't completely unavailable, but prices & lea
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by xenadu02 5y ago
Please re-read my parent comment. A few weeks after Apple announced Metal at WWDC Khronos members met for the first time ever to kickoff then project to replace OpenGL. I don't believe that is a coincidence. Maybe Metal was the straw t
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by xenadu02 5y ago
> that's not what Snowden's leaks showed us. Apple inc. is a very willing participant in all sorts of shady NSA projects. I see people making similar claims but to my recollection the leaks were ambiguous and could easily be in
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by xenadu02 5y ago
It means don't throw your people under the bus by blaming them and when something goes wrong take responsibility. When it goes wrong at the VP level it means an organizational failure and/or your failure to understand what your or
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by xenadu02 5y ago
I don't know why we have to keep having this discussion but Metal pre-dates Vulkan. It shipped to developers in June 2014. Vulkan didn't ship until Feb 2016. Metal is the reason Vulkan exists: Apple announced Metal in June 2014 an
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by xenadu02 5y ago
> Not really sure how else they can make sure people don't just borrow 10 books and never come back People can already do this if they want. Nothing stops you from checking out the max number of books and never coming back. Most lib
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by xenadu02 5y ago
They mean a lot of ISPs and VPS providers will flag & terminate your account for launching port scans so it is difficult to find somewhere to run such a scan at any kind of speed.
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by xenadu02 5y ago
I think they mean the NIH grant reviewer dismissed the grant request on the basis that the technology was too expensive - ignoring that the research was intended to catalyze mass production which would have made the technology economical. T
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by xenadu02 5y ago
Too bad they didn't insist on some shares in the deal. That would have paid off quite well!
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by xenadu02 5y ago
I see nothing about battery life impact. Has that even been measured?
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by xenadu02 5y ago
Most common locks can be easily picked with a tiny bit of practice. I'm completely incompetent but I can pick any Master lock in 5 minutes or less.
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by xenadu02 5y ago
If you must exist in this kind of organization use this to your advantage. Get involved in important projects, setup purchase proposals, then make sure you add in new laptops, cables, mice, extra monitors, and whatever other accessories you
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by xenadu02 5y ago
The building was leaning 17" at the top when this work started. Within a year it is now leaning 22". That is a dramatic increase in such a short time. It would appear the objections to the original plan were sound. The alternative
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by xenadu02 5y ago
Police inaction is a long-standing problem that pre-dates the current DA by quite some time. SF police have not responded to garage break-ins or car break-ins for some time. They might show up 5 hours later, very annoyed, and take a report.
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by xenadu02 5y ago
Companies regularly NAT many thousands of users behind a single public IP. Additionally non-profits, schools, and others often provide WiFi for their guests/students using a supposedly residential internet account or their ISP doesn&#x
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by xenadu02 5y ago
You can end up worse off for waiting, even if there is a "bubble pop". Even people who correctly identify market bubbles and have good timing can lose in the long run because the gains during the run up of the market compound so m

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